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“Why don’t you get soot to call Baker Street—he wants the details—but there’s no reason you have to stay awake, too Not with bodyguards in the next room”

Keira stood up In just those few seconds her face had been wiped clean of emotion “Maybe I will” Her voice was flat, toneless

Cody knew that expression It was the same frozen mask she’d worn after the first time he’d kissed her, but noas all too aware it was her way of hiding deep pain she didn’t want the world to see And he knew that voice—he’d heard it before, too, the sa to their first kiss

This wasn’t his Keira, this cold, ehter For her to shut down this way had to mean she cared so passionately she couldn’t deal with it any other way

She loves you

She’d said the words when they werelove earlier And he’d believed her But now he kneent far deeper He wanted to take her in his arms and comfort her, reassure her that he was safe for now, but the presence of the other agents stopped hi All he could do was let his eyes tell her what he couldn’t show her But she wouldn’t look at hih She slipped quietly into the bedroo to call her back, willing her to turn around But she didn’t

Keira closed the bedroom door behind her and stood for a aze fell on her bed The sheets and blanket were all rumpled, and in her mind’s eye she could see Cody and her there earlier, their bodies entwined She could still hear the echoes of their passion She could still feel him deep inside her

Then she heard Cody saying, Turn the key, step on the gas and boom She shuddered and covered her face with her hands All her earlier excite out who had revived the New World Militia and how, uncovering the link between the the connection between theone

Turn the key, step on the gas and boom

Her hands dropped to her sides and for the puzzle hadn’t protected Cody It was a ravely injured It was a miracle he’d noticed—how had he put it to Callahan? Dustthat wasn’t there Soht,her love to hi explosives in Cody’s truck Someone anted him dead And not just dead—so death by fire

So to do with death by fire But another thought crowded in, pushing everything else aside Cody’s naht beneath Callahan’s

And she had failed to protect him That was the bottoer, and she’d let hiht for his safety All she’d cared about was keeping hierous for him otherwise, but because she selfishly wanted to fall asleep in his arued, she’d just let hio

Turn the key, step on the gas and boom

If Cody had died tonight, how could she live with that knowledge?

Mandy suddenly caht had taken the life of the man she loved, the father of her unborn child Mandy, who had attempted suicide when she lost both the iven her—her last link to hi Callahan’s life

When Cody had told her those stories, Keira had sympathized, but she hadn’t empathized Noas different Now she understood, really understood

Keira shuddered again, but this time it wasn’t because she could have lost Cody so soon after finding hied a pri she’d conceived his child tonight